How good is this new gaming rig?

Question

I am mid level gamer who records gameplay and livestreams. Is this a good setup? Is everything compatible?

Case: $240
NZXT Phantom 820 Series CA-PH820-W1 White Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Power Supply: $ 320
Rosewill HERCULES-1600 1600W Continuous @ 50°C, Intel Haswell Ready, 80 PLUS SILVER, ATX12V v2.31 & EPS12V v2.92, SLI/CrossFire Ready, Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Motherboard: $225
ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Gaming Motherboard with 3-Way SLI/CrossFireX Support and UEFI BIOS

CPU: $330
AMD FX-9590 Vishera 4.7GHz Socket AM3+ 220W Desktop Processor - Black Edition FD9590FHHKWOF

Heat Sync: $200 (Amazon)
XSPC RayStorm 750 AX240 Water Cooling Kit

Heat Sync Coolant: $30 (Amazon)
XSPC EC6 High Performance Liquid Cooling Premix Coolant - 1L - UV Green

Memory: $150
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CML16GX3M2A1600C10R

[1800] GPU (3 way SLI): $1500
EVGA ACX Cooler 03G-P4-2784-KR GeForce GTX 780 Superclocked 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card

Storage: $175
SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) WINDOWS ($90)

Western Digital WD Green WD20EZRX 2TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive (REGULAR) ($85)

Optical Drive: $130
Pioneer 16X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA Blu-ray Burner BDR-209DBK

Total: $3300

Answer 1

If your building this for animation/video editing, heres some tips from an animation project manager.

1) dont waste the money on 3way SLI GTX780's, spend a little more on a single Nvidia Quadro 5000 or 6000 series card, they are made for rendering/animation work.

2) Save some money and use an FX8350 and an Asrock 990FX motherboard, you dont need the FX9590 or the Asus board for editing/rendering, thats just throwing money out the window.

3) Take the money you just saved and get 64GB (4x16) 2133Mhz RAM ( video work is very RAM and GPU intensive).

4) drop the hercules power supply, you wont need it now, and get a good 1000 watt platinum power supply such as the Corsair RM1000.

5)Dont use a WD green drive, get the Black, the green has a power saving "sleep" feature which causes lag.

6) You dont need liquid cooling unless your overclocking or hard core gaming, just get an aftermarket dual fan cooler such as the Hyper 212 EVO and save yourself $200.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Running a 3 way gtx 780 , and a amd fx 9590, you are good and not being a fan boy about it the mobo 990fx chipset is great for the the 9590 and the 3 way sli graphic card , gaming at ultra settings past 60+ fps even high end games

Answer 3

Good built.. But are you sure you want to spend so much money.. I could build a PC that would perform way better for under $3000.... Are you opened for suggestions?

Answer 4

That's pretty good, although the price may be too high. A high end pc is usually 1000-1500 so that's pretty overkill lol.